Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday afternoon fire in Chipps Clothiers, Mt. Auburn st. clothing establishment, drew a crowd of more than 500 curious undergraduates before firemen from the Lincoln sq station succeeded in extinguishing...
Danzig's confrere, Lincoln A. Werden, hailed "the emergence of Harvard as a topflight team. Entering the contest an unknown factor to most observers, the Crimson ran on its repertoire of plays with a thoroughness and efficiency sufficient to rock the Lions in the first half and then carried out its assignments of newly installed Michigan style of attack so well that it left a determined Columbia eleven for short of a cherished victory...
...daughter of a doctor, and married to a doctor, Leslie Kent was left a widow with a three-year-old child. Then she gave up the drugstore that she and her husband had owned in Lincoln, Neb., parked her child with friends and enrolled in the Lincoln Medical College...
Another appointee with a record of government service is Lincoln Gordon '33, who has been named Professor of Government and Administration at the Business School. Professor Gordon has been a consultant of the State Department on the European Recovery Program since July, 1947, and, since May, he has served as Acting Director of the Program Review Division of the Economic Cooperation Administration...
They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...